Re: [anjuta-list] creating a deb package with anjuta

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:06:54 -0500
Benton Greene <beezum88 gmail com> wrote:

> I don't have a horribly complex program. It basically consists of a
> couple source files (in C), and the only library it uses is GTK+. And
> gettext because Anjuta automatically included it, though I don't
> actually make use of any of its functionality.

I had this experience too. Generally there are two options:

- It is fairly easy to make a ('non-official') package for other
Debian/Ubuntu users to install and use. These packages can be made by
checkinstall and other scripts. Another way is to make a tgz package
(easy too), and convert it to .deb with 'alien' - another script. 

- As said, all these tries produce non-official deb packages. Official
packages, which can then be included in repositories, are required to be
constructed by 'packagers/maintainers', and have to be made on
native .deb based systems (according to one packager I communicated
with).

So, non .deb users cannot easily make 'official' packages (unless
installing a virtual machine).

All the .deb tutorials I've seen are not simple, and require installing
extra tools.

John